Rielle Hunter: 'I'm Not a Mistress, I'm a Mom'
June 26, 2012
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Rielle Hunter was in the hot seat on Tuesday’s episode of “The View.” Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters weren’t about to let John Edwards’ infamous mistress off easy.
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When Hunter tried to defend herself, saying, "I'm not a mistress, I'm a mom,” Elisabeth Hasselbeck fired back, "Truth be told, you were a mistress."
Then there was Whoopi’s comment. "I hear everything you are saying, but in your book you trash a dead lady whose husband you had an affair and had a baby with. Did it not occur to you that that maybe that might not be the right tone to take?"
Barbara had a personal “bone to pick” with Rielle over her new memoir, “What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter and Me.” Hunter wrote that Walters bullied her after learning that she agreed to an exclusive interview with Oprah.
"I have no idea what you mean by that," Walters said. "I've done thousands of interviews and I've never screamed at anyone -- I've made people cry, but I've never screamed." Rielle replied, "It's not the first time, and it won't be the last, that people remember things differently."
Hunter has been very vocal about her six-year affair with Edwards while doing press for her book, available in stores on Tuesday. Defending her actions, Hunter insisted she’s not a home wrecker and that Edwards’ 11-year marriage to wife Elizabeth, who died from breast cancer in 2010, was troubled before the affair began.
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YOUR A SLUTTY MISTRESS!!! Who you kidding that your not??
Rielle is a tramp, slut, whore, homewrecker, skank and just plain white trash. AND I AM SICK TO DEATH OF HEARING ABOUT HER. !!! pOOR qUINN...
They always blame the wife (or husband in some cases) and say the marriage was over long before they came along. Of course that is what the husband is going to tell them. Regardless of where a marriage is, or what state it is in, it isn't over until they are legally divorced. No matter how you look at it, a good, caring, person would not get involved with another persons spouse, no matter what the circumstances may or may not be. I'm not defending the cheating spouse, but I am sick of hearing that same line over and over again...
It never ceases to amaze me how these sleaze bags blame the wife for them having an affair with their husbands!
I say BOYCOTT the book! She doesn't deserve the hard earned dollar of decent people. May she crawl back under her rock & never be heard of again!
The Edwards' children should sue her for trashing their Mother.
I don't know why people have to talk badly about someone after they are dead. Ms. Hunter was fishing in Elizabeth Edward's pond and deciced to write her memoir {which I personally will not read} after Mrs. Edwards was gone. How did she expect the woman to react. She was fighting multiple fights at one time. First she had small children. Second she knew she was dying with cancer. And third, and probably most important, the man she had chosen to spend her life with did not know how or choose to keep his pants up. We all do things in life we are not proud of, but hopefully not at someone else's expense. I can only hope that the knowledge of their affair didn't shorten the woman's life and that others among us with similar disgretions have better sense than to blame a dead person. Just because a marriage sems to be in trouble doesn't give any of us a reason to step into the lives of the couple while they are still married.
I on her side because those poliction is a lier, Me too had same ... and I don't know how to do right now; can somebody help Me.
On any given subject I almost never agree w/Elizabeth Hasselback. Her remarks to Rielle Hunter though I couldn't agree with her more. I have no use for women that sleep with married men. To go up to a known married man and say, "You're so hot" is just disgusting! She wanted the man and the power and wasn't smart enough to realize that someone running for president would never divorce his wife with cancer or to whom he had been married to for over 30 years! I loved it when they announced that everyone in the audience would receive a copy of the book, not one person clapped. Now that spoke volumnes!
WILL NOT BUY HER BOOK.. my first thought is.. if you knew he was married why were you not taking steps to prevent pregnancy. you knew she was terminally ill. should have been able to hide it bit longer.. can't blame her for the affair, but she sure could nave taken precautions..
My advice...... Do NOT buy her book."..just another way to extend her 15 minutes & exploitation... SHAME on her.. SMH. & KUDOS to the View & the moxie to speak the truth to her!
Uh-huh, yeah, right. Wrote a book & now you want us to feel sorry for you. Naw baby naw!!
Hilarious that Rielle Hunter wants to be known for "being a Mom." Who is she kidding? She will forever be known as a home wrecker. Why does this article say the Edwards were married for 11 years? They were married for over 30 years - until the marriage was destroyed thanks to Rielle Hunter, the home wrecker. Now that John Edwards dumped his old mistress and her book tanked, maybe Rielle Hunter can star in a reality show about - home wreckers.
Doesn't it seem strange that she got pregnant at the start of her affair, but evidently used protection after she had the baby and was pulling in John to her fantasies? She has the nerve to say that because of her age, she didn't think she could get pregnant. Who does she think she is kidding. And her bad talk about Elizabeth, as if she knew her, is really pathetic! Talk about jealousy. She is a cruel, mean woman who knew what she was doing every step of the way. Not only did she hurt the children of John and bad mouth a real lady (Elizabeth), she continued to help John ruin his future. Isn't that like "biting the hand that feeds you"? I just can't find the right words to say what a real "slimy, lying B...." she really is. And she isn't even good a lying... you can see right through her "stories". Cruel and heartless.... she's a nightmareT John finally got smart and left her...but he will have to continue paying her for the rest of his life. Lot so dirty baggage to have to carry. Maybe that's his penance!
Shame, shame, shame on you. You are a tool! Call it what you want...we all know what you are.
She was a whore before she was a mother. She slept with a married man whose wife was dying of Cancer. Now she trying to use the child as an excuse for her behavior. The media should stop having her on so she can promote her book. They are acting like pimps for this "Mother".
You say, the Edward's marriage was over long before you, but that still does not justify what either of you did. That is what divorce is for. How can anyone justify an affair. I know that it happens every day but to use that to justify your actions is wrong. Then to write a book about the affair....I, for one, will not be buying the book. I am over all of this.